The D.U.Quark

By Mackenzie Leszczynski

Blurb: 

Kids in elementary school never stop asking questions about how the body works. Every answer I would get to these questions seemed so new, serious, and outright outrageous. What about the things that aren’t? In the 21 years I’ve been alive, I’ve heard plenty of things about the human body that seem extremely serious. I’m going to take you through some of the things I thought were that serious as a kid, but simply aren’t! 

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